Word: caesarian
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Edelin's indictment springs from an abortion he performed in October 1973. The operation was a hysterotomy, similar surgically to a caesarian section...
...world. He had placed himself outside the law. It is a temptation, I think, all Presidents and all men who aspire to great power face." Even so, Author White feels that the United States is at least half a century away from the possibility of anything like Caesarian takeover. "There is, however, a real threat of a dictatorship by power blocs and through mass manipulation. But I have great faith in the ability of our communications media to protect...
After the twelfth week a more complicated operation is required, and many Boston hospitals and abortionists refuse to perform the necessary surgery. In England, abortions are performed up to the twenty-second week, but the operation after the sixteenth week resembles a small Caesarian. Abortions in Puerto Rico (which are illegal) are generally not done after the tenth week...
Meanwhile, those "unconscious" imperialists, the American Presidents, were exercising the appropriate "Caesarian powers," including the right to initiate wars without asking Congress. As a result, believes De Riencourt, "the United States has gradually become a garrison state." Counting "Pentagon satellite military establishments" in Europe, Latin America and the Far East, De Riencourt reckons that the U.S. has the biggest army, by "relative size," since Rome...
...downtown arteries during the holiday shopping season. Caesar solved the problem in his day by imperial edict, banning carts, wagons, coaches and elephants during daylight hours. Last week Rome was trying the same thing on a smaller scale-and ruefully discovering banning Fiats by fiat to be hardly a Caesarian triumph...